20 April 2012
The Music of Toru Takemitsu: A talk by Noriko Ohtake
In this special event, Dr Noriko Ohtake discussed Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu’s life and works and demonstrated with music his style and sources of inspirations.
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19 April 2012
Trees, Small Fires and Japanese Joints
‘Trees, Small Fires and Japanese Joints’ is an exhibition of drawings by Edward Allington, Head of Graduate Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Some of the drawings are based on the famous screen by Kano Eitoku, ‘Cypress Trees’, some from other Japanese prints, some from observation, and others from comic books and a children’s guide to Japanese carpentry.
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Coriolanus: A Talk by Globe to Globe Festival Director Tom Bird
Tom Bird, Director of the Globe to Globe Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe, discussed his job over the last one and a half years of putting together the world’s largest and most ambitious Shakespeare festival – including the challenges, adventures and characters he’s encountered on the way. In particular he discussed his travels in Japan and the Globe’s relationship with Chiten in a special event held at Daiwa Foundation Japan House.
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The Appeal of Mino Washi
In this special event at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, Satoshi Hasegawa and Zoë Howard introduced Mino washi (traditional Japanese paper from Mino City), which has a proud tradition of more than 1,300 years.
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Lessons from Japan’s Disaster
In this invitation only seminar at Chatham House, Dr Yoichi Funabashi and Professor Heizo Takenaka, the editors of “Lessons from the Disaster: Risk management and the compound crisis presented by the Great East Japan Earthquake” (The Japan Times, 2011), reported on the lessons Japan has learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011.
More info20 March 2012
Patterns of Shadows
By Professor Monty Adkins, Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield and the artist of ‘Patterns of Shadows’, Pip Dickens.
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North Korean Security Challenges – Post Kim Jong-il
North Korea is a source of security tensions in Northeast Asia, and the regime there poses a range of problems for its own people, its neighbours and the wider world. Three speakers will discussed the security challenges presented by the new regime in North Korea to the US, South Korea and Japan.
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Can the Democratic Party finally raise Japan’s consumption tax?
This lecture discussed the politics of raising the Consumption Tax, and in particular the reasons why the discussion has moved forward during the time that the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has been in power.
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Patterns of Shadows
‘Patterns of Shadows’ is an exhibition of oil paintings by Pip Dickens, derived from her research in Kyoto in 2011. The paintings (oil on canvas) draw upon colour, pattern, rhythm and vibration, associated with kimono fabrics and katagami stencils, and frequently juxtapose these with quieter, understated greys, shadows and subtle interplays of light. The artist was introduced by Professor Monty Adkins, Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield.
More info29 February 2012
The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000
‘The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000’, edited by Dr Penelope Francks and Professor Janet Hunter, was launched at Daiwa Foundation Japan House.
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A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs
‘A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs’, edited by Professor Roger Goodman, Dr Yuki Imoto and Dr Tuukka Toivonen was launched at Daiwa Foundation Japan House.
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Leadership in Central Banking
In this seminar, the second in the 2012 series ‘Leadership: People and Power in the UK and Japan’, we asked what lessons can be learnt from the Bank of Japan’s experience over the last two decades – and what central bankers in both countries should do next?
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